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Front. Plant Sci., 2023, 14
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Future climate and agricultural farming systems affect the fungal plastisphere of different biodegradable plastics at the early stage of field degradation

Benjawan Tanunchai, Martin Schädler and Matthias Noll

Environ Sci Eur, 2025, 37
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Metatranscriptomics of microbial biofilm succession on HDPE foil: uncovering plastic-degrading potential in soil communities

Joana MacLean, Alexander Bartholomäus, Roberts Blukis, Susanne Liebner and Dirk Wagner

Environmental Microbiome, 2024, 19
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Microbes with plastic-degrading and pathogenic potentials are present on plastics in the final polishing pond of a wastewater treatment plant

Jessica A. Wallbank, Fraser Doake, Lloyd Donaldson, Joanne M. Kingsbury, Hayden Masterton, Olga Pantos, Dawn A. Smith, Beatrix Theobald, Louise Weaver and Gavin Lear

Environmental Microbiome, 2025, 20
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Bioengineering for the Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminants

Minzhen Wang, Mingzhu Ding and Yingjin Yuan

Bioengineering, 2023, 10, 347
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The plastisphere microbiome in alpine soils alters the microbial genetic potential for plastic degradation and biogeochemical cycling

Joel Rüthi, Basil M. Rast, Weihong Qi, Carla Perez-Mon, Lucrezia Pardi-Comensoli, Ivano Brunner and Beat Frey

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 441, 129941
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Evaluating the environmental impact of polylactic acid plastics in agriculture: Microbial degradation and plant interaction insights

Jiaxi Liu, Yifan Duan, Tianjiao Song, Qing Liu, Peiyuan Wang, Lijun Hou, Yufan Wang, Yiqiong Zhang, Jinyi Zhang, Li Li, Caroline de Tender and Yanbing Lin

Journal of Environmental Management, 2025, 387, 125853
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Future climate change enhances the complexity of plastisphere microbial co-occurrence networks, but does not significantly affect the community assembly

Li Ji, Benjawan Tanunchai, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, Martin Schädler and Witoon Purahong

Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 844, 157016
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Are biodegradable mulch films a sustainable solution to microplastic mulch film pollution? A biogeochemical perspective

Fuxin Huang, Qiyu Zhang, Lei Wang, Congyu Zhang and Ying Zhang

Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 459, 132024
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Occurrence, Degradation Pathways, and Potential Synergistic Degradation Mechanism of Microplastics in Surface Water: A Review

Lihua Niu, Yingjie Wang, Yi Li, Li Lin, Yamei Chen and Jiayan Shen

Curr Pollution Rep, 2023, 9, 312
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Role of mtr pathway in extracellular electron transfer-driven malathion degradation by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

Yanhong Li, Jie Zhang, Qiujin Chen, Shen Tang and Yuqing Peng

Chemical Engineering Journal, 2025, 520, 166288
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Effects of polylactic acid (PLA) and polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate (PBAT) biodegradable microplastics on the abundance and diversity of denitrifying and anammox bacteria in freshwater sediment

Zhenpeng Nie, Lulu Wang, Yanxu Lin, Naidong Xiao, Jianwei Zhao, Xiaoqiong Wan and Jinlong Hu

Environmental Pollution, 2022, 315, 120343
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Enhanced biodegradable polyester film degradation in soil by sequential cooperation of yeast-derived esterase and microbial community

Shun Tsuboi, Yuko Takada Hoshino, Kimiko Yamamoto-Tamura, Hirohide Uenishi, Natsuki Omae, Tomotake Morita, Yuka Sameshima-Yamashita, Hiroko Kitamoto and Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo

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Links among Microbial Communities, Soil Properties and Functions: Are Fungi the Sole Players in Decomposition of Bio-Based and Biodegradable Plastic?

Vusal Guliyev, Benjawan Tanunchai, Matthias Noll, François Buscot, Witoon Purahong and Evgenia Blagodatskaya

Polymers, 2022, 14, 2801
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Micro/Nanoplastics in plantation agricultural products: behavior process, phytotoxicity under biotic and abiotic stresses, and controlling strategies

Zhihao Lin, Donghui Xu, Yiming Zhao, Bin Sheng, Zhijian Wu, Xiaobin Wen, Jie Zhou, Ge Chen, Jun Lv, Jing Wang and Guangyang Liu

J Nanobiotechnol, 2025, 23
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Bacterial dynamics during the burial of starch-based bioplastic and oxo-low-density-polyethylene in compost soil

Joshua Abednego Wicaksono, Tresnawati Purwadaria, Adi Yulandi and Watumesa Agustina Tan

BMC Microbiol, 2022, 22
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Degradation of Bio-Based and Biodegradable Plastic and Its Contribution to Soil Organic Carbon Stock

Vusal Guliyev, Benjawan Tanunchai, Maria Udovenko, Oleg Menyailo, Bruno Glaser, Witoon Purahong, François Buscot and Evgenia Blagodatskaya

Polymers, 2023, 15, 660
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The biodegradable polymer poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) modulates the community structures of actively growing bacteria in rotifer culture water

Akito Taniguchi, Shuji Shirakashi, Tomoki Kawagishi, Ayumi Tanaka and Mitsuru Eguchi

Sci Rep, 2025, 15
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